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  1. For example, if I am working on (hypothetical) HTTP/REST-based driver, I would l like icons that read GET, HEAD, POST, etc. next to the url path that would be displayed as the ExplorerItem text.

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  2. For SQL queries that do an INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE, show the number of rows that are affected, like it does in SQL Server Management Studio.

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  3. 6 votes
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  4. Possibility to copy/paste the error message, when a connection to a dbcontext is unsuccessful

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  5. I use SkyDrive to keep my queries synced between various devices but I noticed on Windows 8.1 that it does not show them unless I have "opened" them locally even though the "stub" of the file shows in the directory. It would be nice if LINQPad would show them all and even open them in a way compatible with SkyDrive if I selected one that was not yet fully downloaded.

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  6. I want to create a JSON file for use as part of a simple web prototyping exercise. LinqPAD is perfect for accessing the data from my DB in just the shape I need, however I cannot get it out as JSON very easily.

    I don't really care what the schema is, because I can adapt my JavaScript to work with whatever is returned.

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  7. Current if there are overloads of methods, we cannot distinguish them from IL. Please learn from other tools e.g. ILSPY and show method signatures (parameter types) and return types.

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  8. When your prototypical scripts evolve, you may want clean them up a bit by renaming variables, methods and classes to match their new/changed responsibilities. As find/replace is error prone, such a rename refactoring support would be neat.

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  9. It's now at:

    %programfiles(x86)%\Microsoft SDKs\F#\3.1\Framework\v4.0

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  10. A really nice feature would be an integration of LinqPad into Excel, a bit like Tsunami. I presume that it shouldn't be too difficult to implement with ExcelDna.

    What would be really nice is features like being able to run Linq query against excel ranges, and if possible (like in F#) having auto-complete with column names.

    LinqPad to excel (making functions available as udf in excel) is also nice but I think less useful.

    29 votes
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  11. It would be great to have VB syntax auto formatting like in Visual Studio. VB is a case insensitive language (which is what makes it so appealing to lazy people like me) and I often use the syntax auto-formatting when I type as a quick check that I wrote the right syntax.

    ex: I type:
    dim V as double
    v = 10

    and it becomes
    Dim V as Double
    V = 10

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  12. I just found "export to CSV", but it was not very intuitive having to switch to grid view, when in big letters there is a Export button right next to the results. The inverse is also true, in grid view there is access to CSV, but not Ecel, Word, Html.

    Could you please add the shorcuts ?

    18 votes
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  13. Most of the times Pivot tables are used for Data Visualization/Graph. Would like to see wizard that can help you creating pivot table.

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  14. I mostly find that I need to filter by the primary key id. It would be handy to have a quick way of inserting the primary id name.

    Perhaps a shortcut key, or perhaps even just putting the primary id at the top of the drop down autocomplete.

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  15. I commonly use the full screen option in VS and getting rid of all the superfluous toolbars/menus/tabs/ etc would be helpful

    6 votes
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  16. The line-numbers in a strack-trace counts from the top of the produced .cs file. This includes the using-statements, and first few lines of the UserQuery class definition. The user has no way of knowing how many such lines there are, so the line-numbers would be almost useless.

    To remedy this, LINQPad could add #line-directives

    #line 1 "UserQuery" // Just before the user-code
    #line default // Just after the user-code.
    

    Manually adding #line-directives results in the exception-indicators being placed on wrong lines, but the stack-traces are more useful.

    Read more:
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/34dk387t.aspx
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/szc67b5s.aspx
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd233195.aspx

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  17. Every so often, I would be running a long running query that yields many results. And every once in a while, when dumping the results, there is a failure because of some exception (e.g., OutOfMemoryException, NullReferenceException, etc.) and you never see any of the results because of that. The dump method only writes to the results until the entire collection has been processed and renders them all at once.

    It would be nice if LINQPad would dump each item as the collection was being processed so in the event of a failure, we could see the results that have been…

    4 votes
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  18. should take about a minute to add this. I would use it all the time

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  20. When writing queries against a Teradata ObjectContext, the Results, Lambda and IL views all work as expected, by the SQL view returns nothing. It'd be really handy to have this working, and shouldn't be too hard to implement as simple workarounds already exist. (Just cast a LINQ statement to ObjectQuery and call ToTraceString() on the result - http://developer.teradata.com/blog/dsakai/2010/11/retrieving-the-sql-generated-by-the-entity-provider-for-teradata)

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